The photography for me is, a manner of approaching the questions, such as:

“What is the interface between Living things and the other?”

“What is the Nature of artificial things like architectures, industrial materials, and cities?”

To find insights into the above propositions, I make an observation about the object in relation to my thesis in order to find out the unknown facets. After that, a series of photographs are taken and compiled, much like figures in a natural history book, and through induction, we are able to reach a conclusion about the nature of the object. It represents the relation between audiences and the environment surrounding people living today.

【Education】

PhD in Material Science (2009 Tokyo University of Science) and BA in Applied Biology.

Self-tought photography and related art.

【Exhibition / Award】

2015

Solo Exhibition: “Natural Theology” (Gallery Forgotten Dreams, Tokyo)

Group Exhibition: “TUS Art gallery” (Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo)

The birth of living things definitely happened on ancient earth. A hypothesis said that the formation of a boundary dividing the inner self from the outer space is the origin of cell.

From an early stage of civilization, human beings have worshiped the nature of the universe found inside of all living things and natural phenomena.

“Why is an apple an apple? ”

“What is the difference between human beings and monkey?”

“Why does it rain?”

The veil over the secret of nature has seemed to be taken off by the advances in science and technology today. But, in fact, the essence of nature gets further away, as if human beings have expanded it.

Today, we live with many industrial products like mobile phones, PCs, TVs etc…. No one can understand and recreate a whole system of such electric devices by oneself. Artificial products are now not what they used to be. All people can do is to receive the output function from the devices without any thoughts about the mechanism.

Now it is declared that the technology human beings once invented has metamorphosed into the nature.

The birth of living things definitely happened on ancient earth. A hypothesis said that the formation of a boundary dividing the inner self from the outer space is the origin of cell.

From an early stage of civilization, human beings have worshiped the nature of the universe found inside of all living things and natural phenomena.

“Why is an apple an apple? ”

“What is the difference between human beings and monkey?”

“Why does it rain?”

The veil over the secret of nature has seemed to be taken off by the advances in science and technology today. But, in fact, the essence of nature gets further away, as if human beings have expanded it.

Today, we live with many industrial products like mobile phones, PCs, TVs etc…. No one can understand and recreate a whole system of such electric devices by oneself. Artificial products are now not what they used to be. All people can do is to receive the output function from the devices without any thoughts about the mechanism.

Now it is declared that the technology human beings once invented has metamorphosed into the nature.

When the darkness comes on midnight, the noise of living people is covered by silence. Only the lights and shadows remains on the landscape.

-The lights of moon and stars which has illuminated the surface of the earth before the birth of human being.

-The emergency lights of buildings in which many people gather and sleep with dreams.

-The dim lights on horizon reached from a further city.

These lights derived from different origin with different time scale, illuminate the present objects as equivalent silhouette without any distinction between artificial things and natural ones. All architectures of human being are changing to ruins and merging into nature anymore.

Not all information about the objects cannot be represented in a photograph. But, using photography as a manner of proof for a thesis by induction, the relationship between artificial things and natural things for living as human being can be shown as a perceptual representation. Such findings may be a kind of clues to solve the equation to integrate the universe. To puzzle this eternal question, I keep up to make observations and experiments.

Every living things such as animals, plants is developed from only a single cell, a embryo in terms with Ontogeny. Organs, brains, bodies of Animals, roots, leaves and flowers of plants etc…, these morphologies one can recognized as a visible form are the result of repeating cell division from a cell to organisms. The growth process is often described as a epitome of evolution in biology. From time immemorial, the evolution of life has kept to occur on a tapestry of history like a growing tree shoots out blanches. One cross section of the blanches is reflected in a today’s status of the over million species living with us on the earth.

After leaving off any name of species and characteristic outline of the body from living things, only an ambiguous morphological patterns in its shape and color remain. In these photographs of animals, plants and birds, one may feel a déjà vu, that is, similarity between different species even beyond a boundary between major types on taxonomy. There seems to be an essential thing to open a gate to reveal the origin of life.